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How do you picture success as a writer?<\/span> To many it\u2019s a familiar destination; the publishing deal, the movie on the big screen, the syndicated series, the number one bestseller\u2026 the red carpet appearance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The energy of your desire to achieve your writing goal shapes the path you will travel. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Flawed and false storytelling substitute <\/span>spectacle <\/span><\/i>for <\/span>substance<\/b>, <\/span>trickery <\/span><\/i>for <\/span>truth<\/b>. Weak stories desperate to hold audience attention, degenerate into multi-million dollar razzle dazzle demo reels. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n What is the Spine of your story?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Good story’ means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task. But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Your goal must be a good story <\/b>well-told<\/i><\/b>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/forces-of-antagonism-the-story-of-a-writer-part-3″ button_text=”Your Story Continues in Part 3″ button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color=”#f6a704″ button_border_width=”0px” button_font=”|||on|||||” button_use_icon=”off” custom_margin=”60px||0px” custom_padding=”10px|40px|10px|40px|true|true” custom_css_main_element=”box-shadow:0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);” locked=”off”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your Object of Desire How do you picture success as a writer? To many it\u2019s a familiar destination; the publishing deal, the movie on the big screen, the syndicated series, the number one bestseller\u2026 the red carpet appearance. The energy of your desire to achieve your writing goal shapes the path you will travel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-the-story-of-a-writer","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12090,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions\/12090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/h2>\n
Story isn\u2019t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for truth, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.<\/span><\/h2>\n